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...call to the Boston office placed yesterday from the Crimson by a student who said he wanted to give information after having read the leaflet was put through to an agent who identified himself as Special Agent Benson. In response to the question, Benson said...
...handle that matter. There is a gentleman here who speaks Chinese." Benson added that the Chinese-speaking employee was not in the office, and offered to have him call back. He declined to give the employee's name...
After hearing about Benson's work, several TM practitioners asked to have their blood pressure studied. Wallace and Benson, working independently, then conducted physiological tests on 36 subjects who practiced TM regularly. In a separate study, they asked 1,862 drug users who had also tried TM for at least three months to fill out questionnaires. "It was clear," he says, "that most were at one point heavily engaged in drug abuse. But practically all of them-19 out of 20-said that they had given up drugs because they felt that their subjective meditative experience was superior...
...Benson remains cautious, however, about TM's value to addicts. "I cannot under any circumstances say that TM is an alternative to alcoholism or drug abuse," he insists. He points out that his study is "very biased" because it reported only on people who had learned meditation and continued to practice it; there was no control group of others who tried to end their addiction without the aid of TM. Also, Benson is careful to note, the reports of the 1,862 drug users were subjective-they merely answered Benson and Wallace's questionnaires...
...Benson feels that better-controlled studies are needed. "What we're looking at is a behavioral type of approach to various disease patterns," he says, "to see whether changing one's behavior by meditation will help. As kooky as this sounds to many people, it has just got to be investigated." Otherwise, Benson says, no one can tell if TM is indeed useful...